Esmeralda Colombo is the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the European Institute on Economics and the Environment, in Milan, where she leads her EU-funded project on renewable energy storage, RE-DESIGN. Since September 2023, she has complemented her research work with responsibility as Policy and Public Funding Manager for renewable energy investor and developer Smartenergy Italy Srl, focusing on innovation and policy opportunities for financing and deploying renewables and green hydrogen. Quoted by the IPCC in 2022, her scientific work spans climate-related financial risk, climate and energy justice, effective policy design, and political thought. Twice a Fulbrighter, she started four startups in the sustainability space and is admitted to the lawyers’ bars in Italy and New York State, receiving her JD from the Catholic University of Milan; her LL.Ms from the College of Europe and Columbia Law; her PhD from the University of Bergen, Norway; and her Certificate on Financing and Deploying Clean Energy from Yale University.